Welcome to the T&T Panels, open to EVERYONE in the publishing industry whether you are a reader, unpublished writer, author or publishing expert.
New to Self-Pub Fest? See the Participate page or email me (morgen@morgenbailey.com ~ NB Morgen with an ‘e’) if you’re interested.
Click HERE for The History Behind the T&T Panels.
The link to the T&T panels ongoing is https://us06web.zoom.us/j/
NOTE: Some of the Tuesday and Thursdays will be ‘tell us about your books‘ ~ your opportunity to tell us about your books and read from them!
The panels should run… Tuesdays: 45-60 mins ~ Thursdays: 30 minutes.
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So future dates/topics are below, with recordings from previous sessions are after the timetable. NB Timings are UK time. Please note: Some sessions are liable to change at short notice depending on availability so please do check this page before the sessions. Thank you.
- T&T #39 ~ Thursday 15th October @ 6.30pm-7pm: tell us about your anthology: ~ BB Elsin with Morgen hosting
- Then at 7pm on Thursday 15th October there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access
- then I’m taking a break until… (when they will be weekly, not twice a week)
- TBA ~ November: scriptwriting revisited: On Thursday 28th May David Wake and I (Morgen) talked about scriptwriting. Two authors wanted to attend but were involved in the theatre so we’ll be running it again today. Do you write scripts? Do you read them? What advice would you give to wannabe scriptwriters? ~ Damiano Polcaro ~ David Wake ~ author tba ~ with Morgen hosting ~ two slots remaining
- T&T #40 ~ Tuesday 3rd November @ 6.30pm: taboo topics: you write a genre or topic that others feel might be a little risque or even taboo, have you received negative feedback because of something you’ve written? How do you handle it? Why did you choose to write what you write? Do you only go ‘so far’? Is there something you’d never write about? Have you read any banned books? How long ago was it banned? Is it still in some areas, e.g. schools? Was the ‘fuss’ justified? Do you feel some books include sensitive topics purely to be sensational? ~ Alana Lawler ~ Daniel Furl ~ with Morgen hosting ~ three slots remaining
- No T&T on Thursday 5th November but there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting at 7pm. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access.
- T&T #41 ~ Thursday 12th November @ 6.30pm-7pm: I’m not yet published: a panel of unpublished authors ~ with Morgen hosting ~ five slots remaining
- Then at 7pm on Thursday 12th November there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access
- T&T #42 ~ Tuesday 17th November @ 6.30pm: tell us about your books, or maybe a session on textbooks and handbooks, suggested by BB Elsin!)
- No T&T on Thursday 19th November but there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting at 7pm. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access.
- T&T #43 ~ Tuesday 24th November @ 6.30pm-7pm: publishing routes: get an agent, publisher, self-publish or a mix? Which routes have you taken to publication? Do you want to publish but don’t know which path to choose? Have you self-published but now want to find an agent/publisher instead of, or as well as, continuing to self-publish? Have you been traditionally published but now want to self-publish? What’s holding you back? ~ with Morgen hosting ~ five slots remaining
- Then at 7pm on Thursday 26th November there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access
- T&T #44 ~ Tuesday 1st December @ 6.30pm: tell us about your books
- No T&T on Thursday 3rd December but there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting at 7pm. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access.
- T&T #45 ~ Thursday 10th December @ 6.30pm: readers panel: what readers think of the books they read and what format do they read (eBooks and/or paperbacks)? ~ with Morgen hosting ~ five slots remaining
- Then at 7pm on Thursday 10th December there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access
- T&T #46 ~ Tuesday 15th December @ 6.30pm: tell us about your books
- No T&T on Thursday 17th December but there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting at 7pm. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access.
- Then a break for Christmas/New Year until…
- No T&T on Thursday 7th January but there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting at 7pm. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access.
- T&T #47 ~ Thursday 14th January @ 6.30pm: tell us about your books
- Then at 7pm on Thursday 14th January there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access
- T&T #48 ~ Tuesday 19th January @ 6.30pm: books you wish you’d written/been involved in: from any era ~ a question I ask of authors at festivals! Is there a book you’ve read that you wish you’d written? If so because it’s an amazing book (why?) or because it did really well… or both? Do you provide an author service and there’s an author you’d love to (have) work(ed) with?
- No T&T on Thursday 21st January but there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting at 7pm. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access.
- T&T #49 ~ Thursday 28th January @ 6.30pm: tell us about your books
- Then at 7pm on Thursday 28th January there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access
- T&T #50 ~ Tuesday 2nd February @ 6.30pm: book reviews: do you leave bad ones? How do you react to bad reviews on your books? Are you kinder when leaving a review for a book rather than another household product? How do you balance positive and negative / constructive reviews? Have you learned from a specific review of your book? ~ with Morgen hosting ~ five slots remaining
- No T&T on Thursday 4th February but there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting at 7pm. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access.
- T&T #51 ~ Thursday 11th February @ 6.30pm: tell us about your books
- Then at 7pm on Thursday 11th February there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access
- T&T #52 ~ Thursday 18th February @ 6.30pm: book launches: how do you launch your book? Do you do launches online and in real life? How do they differ? Did you do the launch yourself? If not, who helped you? Did you launch online first or in person? How long ahead did you prepare? Did you create pre-orders? Which social media platforms did you use/find most productive? If you launched your book in real life, how did you get the ‘gigs’ and where did you go? How do you continue to market your book? ~ with Morgen hosting ~ five slots remaining
- Then at 7pm on Thursday 18th February there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access.
- T&T #53 ~ Tuesday 23rd February @ 6.30pm: tell us about your books
- No T&T on Thursday 25th February but there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting at 7pm. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access.
- T&T #54 ~ Tuesday 2nd March @ 6.30pm: how real life affects our writing (for better or worse) ~ with Morgen hosting ~ five slots remaining
- No T&T on Thursday 4th March but there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting at 7pm. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access.
- T&T #55 ~ Thursday 11th March @ 6.30pm: tell us about your books
- Then at 7pm on Thursday 11th March there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access
- No T&T on Tuesday 16th March, (WIPS on Wed 17th) or Thurs 18th March as I’ll be at London Book Fair but there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting at 7pm on Thurs 18th March. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access.
- T&T #56 ~ Tuesday 23rd March @ 6.30pm: topic tba ~ do you have a suggestion?
- No T&T on Thursday 25th March but there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting at 7pm. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access.
- T&T #57 ~ Tuesday 30th March @ 6.30pm: tell us about your books
- No T&T on Thursday 1st April but there will be a New Street Authors Zoom meeting at 7pm. NB. You do have to be a member of NSA (currently just £18 a year pro rata) to gain access.
- and so on…
Other authors tbc: Bryan Mason ~ Caroline England ~ Jane Davis.
The T&T events that have
taken place so far are…
T&T #1 ~ Thursday 12th March: writing life ~ Morgen with Andrea D Woolhead and Alastair McIver chatting about writing inspired by, or based on, real life and their relationship with the publishing industry.
T&T #2 ~ Thursday 19th March: the price of eBooks with Morgen and AA Abbott
T&T #3 ~ Tuesday 24th March: how to self-publish with Morgen, Andrea D Woolhead and Eric Goebelbecker
T&T #4 ~ Thursday 26th March: Morgen talking about the best/worst aspects of being in publishing
T&T #5 ~ Tuesday 31st March: your writing process (when/how?) ~ Eric Goebelbecker ~ MS Clements
T&T #6 ~ Thursday 2nd April: advice for wannabe writers with ~ Andrea D Woolhead ~ John Moore ~ Shaun Allan ~ Tim Franks
T&T #7 ~ Tuesday 7th April: Morgen talked more about ideas
T&T #8 ~ Thursday 9th April: Morgen talked about how Self-Pub Fest came about (It was going to be about collaborating but ironically no authors were booked in!)
T&T #9 ~ Tuesday 14th April: to stick with Amazon’s KDP Select exclusive or go wide? with ~ Dan Burford ~ Eric Goebelbecker ~ Morgen with an ‘E’ (host)
T&T #10 ~ Tuesday 21st April: how real life affects our writing (for better or worse) with Alastair McIver ~ Andrea D Woolhead ~ Eric Goebelbecker ~ SJ Banham and Morgen with an ‘E’ hosting.
T&T #11 ~ Thursday 23rd April: writing under a pen name: BB Elsin ~ John Moore and Morgen with an ‘E’ hosting.
T&T #12 ~ Thursday 30th April: audiobooks (you’ve read and getting your books as audiobooks) ~ Damiano Polcaro ~ Phil Oddy, hosted by Self-Pub Fest founder Morgen Bailey.
T&T #13 ~ Tuesday 5th May: juggling work with writing ~ time management (you still have a day job or are a writer as well as a publishing-related expert) Jane Killick ~ Jill Todd ~ SJ Banham ~ hosted by Self-Pub Fest founder Morgen Bailey
T&T#14 ~ Thursday 7th May: Self-Pub Fest founder Morgen talked about: children and animals in literature (yours or others’!)
T&T #15 ~ Tuesday 19th May: the therapy of writing ~ BB Elsin ~ HJ Reed ~ SJ Banham ~ hosted by Self-Pub Fest founder Morgen Bailey.
T&T #16 ~ Thursday 21st May: newsletters and Substack ~ Eric Goebelbecker, John Moore, Lee Benson ~ hosted by Self-Pub Fest founder Morgen Bailey.
T&T #17 ~ Tuesday 26th May: poetry ~ BB Elsin ~ hosted by Self-Pub Fest founder Morgen Bailey.
T&T #18 ~ Thursday 28th May: scriptwriting ~ David Wake with Morgen hosting.
T&T #19 ~ Tuesday 2nd June: publishing routes: get an agent, publisher, self-publish or a mix? ~ David Wake with Morgen hosting.
T&T #20 ~ Tuesday 9th June: writing non-fiction ~ Andrea D Woolhead ~ Malcolm Alexander with Morgen hosting.
T&T #21 ~ Tuesday 16th June: podcasts (link to a new podcasts page!): SJ Banham with Morgen hosting.
T&T #22 ~ Tuesday 23rd June: advice you’d give wannabe writers ~ Ali Bacon with Morgen hosting. Ali mentions Emma Darwin’s Substack: https://www.emmadarwin.com/this-itch-of-writing.
T&T #23 ~ Thursday 25th June: ‘scammers’ / ‘spammers’?: BB Elsin with Morgen hosting
T&T #24 ~ Thursday 2nd July: book covers ~ Damiano Polcaro ~ Jacqueline Lambert ~ with Morgen hosting
T&T #25 ~ Tuesday 7th July: book reviews ~ with Morgen hosting
T&T #26 ~ Tuesday 14th July: writing competitions: Ali Bacon ~ with Morgen hosting (also see this site’s Writing Competitions & Opportunities page)
T&T #27 ~ Thursday 16th July: writing (for) magazines: with Morgen hosting
T&T #28 ~ Tuesday 21st July: tell us about your books ~ Susannah Hockham ~ with Morgen hosting
T&T #29 ~ Thursday 23rd July: where in the world: ~ SJ Banham ~ with Morgen hosting
T&T #30 ~ Tuesday 28th July: Morgen talking about Spotlights and Tell Us About Your Books…
T&T #31 ~ Thursday 30th July: tell us about your books: BB Elsin talked about ‘Heroes & Traitors’ ~ with Morgen hosting
T&T #32 ~ Thursday 6th August: social media advertising: BB Elsin ~ with Morgen hosting
T&T #33 ~ Tuesday 25th August: characters (revisited): Daniel Furl ~ SJ Banham~ with Morgen hosting
T&T #34 ~ Tuesday 8th September: tell us about your books: ‘Law of Attraction’ by Louise Stapely with Morgen hosting
T&T #35 ~ Thursday 10th September: tell us about your books: Journey of Us ~ with Morgen hosting
T&T #36 ~ Tuesday 15th September: tell us about your books: three books by J Ewins & L Telfer with Morgen hosting
T&T #37 ~ Tuesday 22nd September: alpha and beta readers: Tony Forder with Morgen hosting
T&T #38 ~ Tuesday 6th October: author spotlight with Genevieve Marenghi ~ with Morgen hosting
These are free events but we’re raising money for local book-related charities and we’d be really grateful if you would donate whatever you afford via the Charities & Donate page. Thank you so much.